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  1. openspaceman
    I can't say for deer, I never saw a feral deer before I was 17 here or elsewhere, now I am more likely to see one than a rabbit since they were hit by mixie followed by hemorrhagic disease. Grey squirrel have a very catholic taste and will eat unripe hazel nuts before dormice can digest them. Here they also are supplemented by bird feeders in the winter. I did come across a dormouse in an ivy covered alder I felled two years ago and there were plenty of squirrels about.
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    not to mention grey squirrel out compete them for hazelnuts
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    Sounds like a 3 or 4 position durite ignition switch which I think jcb used have a gander here Ignition Switches | Plant Switches | Plant Electrical | Plant Spares | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Plant Ignition Switches/Barrels for with & without keys. Lucas, Bosch. Key numbers including 14644, 14603, 14607, 35670...
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    The legs, sides, door top baffle and top of mine are still okay, it is the back that is split if you want some green enameled bits.
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    I thought the issue was that non car derived commercials and 4wd weighing greater than 2048kg empty were restricted to 60 on a dual carriageway and 50 on an unrestricted single carriageway. Not much chance of being caught but if you are and doing 70 on a dual you get fined and points for being 10+ over the limit. 70 on a single and it's 20mph over. n
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    Most of the stoves I saw in the early days had no lining. I don't think I came across any before 1978 My 602 has a cast iron door with no glass, it has two cast iron side plates which hung from pegs which will have raised firebox temperature a bit. Later 602s had some glass in the door and then they revamped the air flow with heated secondary flow and firebrick lining.
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    Yes especially as a lot of the wealthy money is from abroad and UK is seen as a good bet. There is no need for it to return them a dividend all the time the demand causes a capital increase.
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    Which is why most creditors give up and the debtors just start again.
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    I too was thinking blocked (idle) jet caused hunting but was unsure whether it was carbs or injection on this engine
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    I don't remember the discussion and had to be reminded of the meaning of assart. I think the picture shows a beech hedge on a boundary bank that was previously laid and managed. The leading shoots have then grown up to form trees that have shaded out suppressed parts of the hedging. I worked on an estate where just this happened, the hedge protected beech coppice (for charcoal making and the hearths could be seen throughout the hillside) from animals traveling along the track (part of the pilgrims way). When we felled some stems they were 90 years of growth dating them to the 1890s.
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    I had some trouble with overheating oil with a big JD running into open centre spool block. It needs the return to be to a point where it dumps directly into tank/axle with no restrictions and most definitely not returning via one of the tractor spools. It may have made better use of the JD's hydraulics to have a closed centre block and load sensing valves but that's a bit too modern for my experience.
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    I use a cordless drill, too much chance of being in reverse 😉
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    I have drain rods but moved to these for sweeping Big Button Lock 12mm Liner Kit Flu-Flex Rods – Chimney Rods Direct WWW.CHIMNEYRODSDIRECT.CO.UK
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    Our planting sites were too poor for gorse to be a problem but generally gorse is an indicator of good potassium and phosphorus status but poor nitrogen, as it is a legume it makes its own.
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    In the old days when the firebox was not lined with firebricks there was a definite advantage in cast iron. My jotul 602 suffered little damage from corrosion in 30+ years apart from around the flue outlet [1]. What cause the main problem that caused me to replace it was purely my fault in chronically shutting th door on overlong logs which cracked the (replaceable) back plate. Now with higher firebox temperatures and less likelihood of acidic condensation on the walls plus the lower temperature the steel is exposed to I doubt there is an advantage. Aso there was often a slight blue haze out of the chimney which indicates poor combustion which decided me to go more modern [1] almost certainly from low flue gas temperature
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    These should be good but I have no experience other than the owner is an expert in high temperature ceramics from big industry
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    Wow how do you cope with that?
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    Did that get it out? I would be surprised. It's normally easier to attach a rope to the track and let the machine ride out on it.
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    I have never tested if they are any good but I have two of mine with Adrian Flux for about £130/annum each.
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    Technically I think you are if you are over their property but it is a civil offence so they would need to show what damage you had caused by not going through the provisions of the party land laws to gain lawful access. See a recent thread about wind turbine blades over sailing a property. I had the same when a developer wanted the tail swing of a crane over a charity's property, the charges were so enormous they got in a more expensive crane with no tail swing. I would crack on too, but quietly and they may never realise.
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    Don't stint on the number of coils on the drum, it is aluminium and slippage causes wear. Also consider that if you are pulling something 50m away; you wrap 5 turns around the capstan which means the rope by the rope bag has 5 twists in it. Now winch the load in 50m and release the end of the rope and remove the wraps off the capstan, 5 twists come off the end of the rope but 5 opposite twists are now in the rope 50 m away. it is a rope management problem I did not appreciate until I got the Eder.
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    My understanding is that it's the agitation of the chain that does it That makes sense as it would be the shear effect of the drive tooth shearing the oil on the bar
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    rheopexy? I am not sure of the advantage as it would make pumping harder. I too would thin, maybe hydraulic oil rather than diesel.
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    I had to repair a Stihl 361 that was dropped, running, into water and that sheared the flywheel key. I tried to align the flywheel but was unsuccessful. @GardenKit had one surplus at below Stihl price which fixed it.
  25. openspaceman
    Hi Rob, long time since we worked together at 60acre wood. If you are working nearby I could drop in and take a look.

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